From the folks who brought you Basecamp…
…Backpack is oriented more to the individual though it looks like it supports sharing your pages.
A cool feature is each page in your Backpack has an e-mail address. So you can email notes, files and pictures directly to the Backpack page.
It will be interesting to see how it works out.
ps their book “Defensive Design for the Web” by 37signals, Matthew Linderman, Jason Fried isn’t too bad…
The Subway dependencies presented more of a challenge than Rails–maybe Python could benefit from a tool like gem? Anyway it took longer to get Subway up and running. And that appears to be the main appeal to Rails; quick gratification!
It may be familiarity with Python but with Subway I can already see more depth and more things I can do…but maybe that works against getting a solution done in the end. 😐
The big thing I like about MS Access is it is quick and easy to get a complete db app up and running. Who cares if it can compete with Oracle or not.
You have to love competion!
It makes for some interesting reading. Hearing Java programmers comment on Hackers and Painters or Paul Graham’s other essays. Some react strongly while others are very creative in discussing Graham’s ideas on Java or going after Graham himself.
My opinion is that Java is another tool in the box. Like C. Like Python. Like VBA. LISP! Or even Delphi ;-O
Basecamp is developed with Ruby on Rails. It is a hosted service. There is a free level which limits you to one project. There are price levels from $12/month for 3 projects to $99/month for unlimited. There is no limit for people customers using it.
It looks like the main benefit is with working with customers on a project. Many features for sharing information, files, etc. found in Groove are in Basecamp.
There are many hosted sites out there similiar to Basecamp. Comparing them is on my ToDo list…